Ruby Essential Training: 1 The Basics

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11/20/2018

Learn the fundamentals of Ruby, the popular object-oriented open-source programming language. Ruby is a great place to start learning programming or web development. It can be used to write interactive programs or build scripts to speed up common tasks. This course provides the basics that new and experienced developers need to know to start coding with Ruby. Instructor Kevin Skoglund begins by walking through the core object types: numbers, strings, symbols, booleans, and more. He demonstrate Ruby's control structures, including conditionals, loops, and iterators. He explains scripting best practices and shows the power of using enumerables and code blocks. By the end of the course, you should be able to use Ruby to define your own custom methods with loops and conditional logic.

Topics include:

Installing Ruby

Examining each object type

Using conditionals and loops to trigger and repeat code

Scripting in Ruby

Writing custom code blocks

Skill Level Beginner

4h 14m

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- [Kevin] You can use Ruby to write interactive programsor to create scripts that perform common tasks.Ruby's also the programming languageused by the popular Ruby on Rails web framework.It's a great place to begin your path to becominga programmer or a web developer.Even experienced programmers will findRuby's power and usability appealing.In this course, you'll learn the basics of programmingwith Ruby, the popular, easy-to-use programming language.You'll learn Ruby step by step, using code examples.We'll begin by exploring basic object types,and progress to writing custom methodswith loops and conditional logic.

I'm Kevin Skoglund,and I've been programming in Ruby for over 13 years,and I still love it just as much as when I started.Let's learn the essentials of programming in Ruby.